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HMV EG 6098 Phalèse 1er Livre de danseries, Gervaise 3e livre de danceries, Spieleinung Berlin

by: Anon.; Pierre Phalèse; Claude Gervaise; Pierre Attaingnant

Publication date: 1938

Topics: classical, shellac, consort music, recorders, harpsichord, Pierre Phalèse, Claude Gervaise, Danceries, Danseries, Spieleinung Berlin, Electrola, HMV, 78 rpm

Language: German

Anonymous composers, pub. Peeter van der Phaliesen (Pierre Phalèse and variants) (c. 1510–c. 1575)
in Premier Liure de Danseries, contenant plusieurs Pavanes, Passomezo, Almandes, Gailliardes, Bransles &c. […], Leuven / Louvain, 1571
fol.2 Fantasia

Anonymous composers, arr. Claude Gervaise (c. 1525–1583 / 1505-1555 etc.), pub. Pierre Attaingnant (c. 1494–late 1551/1552)
in Troisieme livre de danceries a qvatre et cinq parties, vev par Claude Gervaise […] nouuellement imprime […] par la vesue de Pierre Attaingnant […], Paris, 1556
fol.XIX Almande IIII (first strain played by solo harpsichord)

(Probable edition: Henry Expert (ed.) Les maîtres musiciens de la Renaissance française, Vol.23, Paris: Alphonse Leduc, 1908
XXVII. Allemande IV)

Phalèse Premier Liure de Danseries […]
fol.8 Passomezo la doulce (first strain played by solo harpsichord); La Reprinse

(matrix 0RA 1987-2 ■)

Phalèse Premier Liure de Danseries […]
fol.6 Pavane Lesquercarde (end of final strain played by solo harpsichord)
fol.14 Gaillarde La fanfare

(matrix 0RA 1988-3 ■)

(contemporary printed edition of Phalèse not identified; possibly edited by performers from original parts)

Members of Spieleinung Berlin
Hans Krüger (recorder)
Wilhelm Matthies (recorder)
Heinz Stopka (recorder)
(?) Borrmann (recorder)
Margarete Riedel (harpsichord)

Contemporary concert reviews name Riedel and Krüger as directors of the ensemble

Sincere thanks to Dr. Martin Elste for supplying Matthies’ first name, not billed on disc labels

Recorded: 7 July 1937, Berlin
Format: coarse-groove, 78 rpm, 10” / 25 cm, electrical
Matrices: as above
Issued: February 1938
Catalogue number: EG 6098

Transfer from British HMV pressing, available only outside Germany (in Britain, by special order); issued in Germany on Electrola, with same catalogue number

In 1951, reassigned to Catalogue of Educational Recordings (special order only)

Transfer and restoration: Andrew Hallifax for DogintheManger
Photographs: DogintheManger

Contemporary sources
Electrola Neuerscheinungen Februar 1938, p.3
Review by Herbert Gerigk (Electrola issue), Die Musik, Vol.XXX No.6, March 1938, p.410

Unsigned review (Electrola issue), H. Royer Smith Co., The New Records, Vol.6 No.12, February 1939, p.8

F.F. Clough & G.J. Cuming ‘Deletions from International Special and German Lists’, The Gramophone, February 1951, pp.212-14
1951 Catalogue of Educational Recordings “His Master’s Voice” Columbia Parlophone, London: The Central Education Office [EMI], [1951], pp.2, 141, 147